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Britain has one paid carer for every 100 pensioners…
Britain has one carer for every 100 pensioners… among the worst in the world
Last updated at 11:13 PM on 1st July 2011
Britain has just one carer per 100 pensioners – a smaller proportion than anywhere else in the developed world, figures show.
According to an international survey, Ireland has three times as many carers per 100 pensioners. The U.S. has five times as many and Sweden has 12 times as many.
The figures, from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which represents industrialised nations, help explain the poor quality of care in many of our residential homes, as well as the appalling standards of home-help services, which last month were described as an affront to the human rights of the elderly.
Rare: The number of carers working in Britain has halved since the 1990s
County Council support to help most vulnerable
30 June 2011
Edited by Andy Porter editor@wellbeingnorfolk.co.uk
More people in Norfolk are set to benefit from a project that sees the health of vulnerable people benefit from a structured program of farming–related activities on a ‘care farm’.
Elderly couples face paying £100,000 for care
Elderly couples face paying £100,000 for care
Elderly couples face bills of up to £100,000 for residential homes under plans to be announced next week after the government warned pensioners their care will “never, ever” be free.
By Tim Ross, Social Affairs Editor
10:00PM BST 29 Jun 2011
Paul Burstow, the health minister, ruled out introducing a new NHS-style free national care service for all, and urged the public to accept “the nasty truth” that all but the poorest will have to pay for their own care.
Plans to be published on Monday are expected to propose a limit on how much individuals pay towards the cost of a care home place, meals on wheels, home adaptations and visits from helpers. The govern
